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There are stories of Socrates in the Grecian wars and of a nameless yogi in the Indian mutiny, absorbed in such deep contemplation that neither the noise and tumult nor the violence and strife of battle were enough to break it. Each remained bodily still and mentally serene for hours.

-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7 : Contemplative Stillness > # 80